Hi Degian. A 3-day event will be regarded by players as being a serious tournament, and players will want to bring their best game. It's really hard to play your best game when blinds are being increased by 50% or more in several increments such as you have between levels 3-4, 6-7, 12-13, 14-15, 20-21, and 22-23.

To remedy this I would recommend dropping your first level, 25-50. With an average chipstack of 20,000, a 50 bb is 400x the average stack, practically meaningless. A starting bb of 100 is still 200x the bb and allows for plenty of time to "get comfortable". The second change I'd recommend is decreasing your blind intervals from 60 mins to 45 or 50. Doing these two simple steps will allow you to remove the drastic blind increases and allow players to settle in and play their best poker, something serious players really appreciate.

With those changes, using a 45 min. interval and 45 min dinner break you can restructure day 1a-1b as:50-10075-150100-200125-250150-300200-400250-500300-600350-700400-800500-1000

Day 2 as:600-1200800-16001000-20001200-24001500-30002000-40002500-50003000-60004000-80005000-100006000-12000

Going into the final day, the average stack (assuming 9 players), would be 27x the bb at 8000-16000 level. 8000-1600010000-2000012000-2400015000-3000017000-3400020000-4000025000-5000030000-6000035000-7000040000-8000050000-100000. At 50k-100k blinds, with 3 players remaining the average stack is 13x the bb, with 2 players it's 20x, so the end is very near if it hasn't already occured.

After level 1-2, the largest percent blind increase in the above structure is 33%, with the majority at 25% or less. Keep your antes at 10% or greater of the BB and you'll have a tournament without uncomfortably harsh blind increases.

It may sound tougher but working your way back from the end of the tournament is the best way to deal with time constraints. If you know the tournament will be finished when the average stack is 8 BB then begin moving backwards from there. Set yourself a goal of eliminating x number of players by the end of the day and have your blinds set accordingly. With a starting strack of 20,000 it will be tough. If your taking 60 in day 2 you need to eliminate 70 from each day 1 session. At the end of day 1 if you were taking around 30 players average stack would be 67,000. To get to that point lower your M ratio(Your combined total for a round of blinds and antes) to guarantee knockouts. At around 8 M's you will be losing players fast. A more comfortable 12 m's is where I feel your tournament may end properly without taking all play value away from your patrons. I see you are ending day 1 at 600-1200, blinds 200 ante. You may be forced to take 50 from each day to day 2 and start day 2 at 100 players again. You may have some trouble getting down to the final 9 from 100 in a single day. You levels need to be a bit more aggressive to get down to an acceptable number of continuing players. One thing you may also put in your structure is something like "Day 1 plays 12 levels OR down to 30 players, whichever comes first."A few other notes. I always roll back the blind level a bit for the day 2 and especially final table players. Usually two levels is enough that they will appreciate being able to settle into their game and play their best poker. I try to keep my antes a little hgher than 10% of my BB. It evens out stacks a little better and will contribute to a more smooth elimination process. An 800 BB with a 100 ante is not uncommon. Agressive antes with lower blinds is what I believe MikeB is trying to get at as well. Creates a much smoother flow to the tournament. I know most of us have played in tourney's where there are chuncks of time when no eliminations happen for 2 levels then all of a sudden the blind picks up and players are forced to make moves in order to stay afloat. Suddenly you see 15% of the field eliminated in the first ten minutes of that level. Good luck!

My problem is that::Day 1a starts at 18:00 and should be finish at 03:00 with all the breaks.Day 1b start at 17:00 till 03:00 but i can't enter more levels i should enter the same levels as day1aday 2 start at 17:00 and they can play till 03:00 or til they reach the final table.thanks in advance

You can't run more levels for the day 1b than day 1a. They must be mirror tournaments or you may find people will complain that one structure is different form the other. Playing down to a number of players and ending on different levels is fine though. The extra time you have on day 1b can be dedicated to something else. After those two long nights you may simply want a bit more rest or use the time to do chip inventories or card maintenance. If anyone asks why day 1b starts an hour earlier you can simply say that you are wrapping up ealry for those players who must play 2 days in a row.